热固性聚合物
固化(化学)
材料科学
聚合物
极限抗拉强度
耐化学性
天然橡胶
复合材料
高分子科学
作者
Peyton Shieh,Wenxu Zhang,Keith E. L. Husted,Samantha L. Kristufek,Boya Xiong,David Lundberg,Jet Lem,David Veysset,Yuchen Sun,Keith A. Nelson,Desirée L. Plata,Jeremiah A. Johnson
出处
期刊:Nature
[Springer Nature]
日期:2020-07-22
卷期号:583 (7817): 542-547
被引量:234
标识
DOI:10.1038/s41586-020-2495-2
摘要
Thermosets—polymeric materials that adopt a permanent shape upon curing—have a key role in the modern plastics and rubber industries, comprising about 20 per cent of polymeric materials manufactured today, with a worldwide annual production of about 65 million tons1,2. The high density of crosslinks that gives thermosets their useful properties (for example, chemical and thermal resistance and tensile strength) comes at the expense of degradability and recyclability. Here, using the industrial thermoset polydicyclopentadiene as a model system, we show that when a small number of cleavable bonds are selectively installed within the strands of thermosets using a comonomer additive in otherwise traditional curing workflows, the resulting materials can display the same mechanical properties as the native material, but they can undergo triggered, mild degradation to yield soluble, recyclable products of controlled size and functionality. By contrast, installation of cleavable crosslinks, even at much higher loadings, does not produce degradable materials. These findings reveal that optimization of the cleavable bond location can be used as a design principle to achieve controlled thermoset degradation. Moreover, we introduce a class of recyclable thermosets poised for rapid deployment. A method of endowing thermoset plastics with a degree of recyclability and reprocessability by incorporating cleavable chemical linkages in the strands of the polymer, rather than in the crosslinks, is presented.
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